Back to DR-DOS again

[sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org]

I believe there was a CD, which I removed from the drive. When I 
rebooted, it still gave me Dr-DOS. Only changing the BIOS made it 
normal again.

On 15 Jul 2012 at 13:03, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
> 
> | I imagine it must have been stored on a rom chip somewhere on the MB, 
> | but where? In the BIOS?
> 
> Did you have a CDROM in the drive?  El-Torito booting can optionally
> fake a floppy for booting.
> 
> DOS isn't too good at large disks.  Or cdroms.  There are variouis
> work-arounds.
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